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Holger Kraus

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Last update: 24.09.2023

Senior Project Manager, PMP and Software-Developer

Graduation: not provided
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Native or Bilingual) | English (Full Professional)

Skills

Years of IT experience: 36 (18 as PM), PMP Credentials valid until 06/2022
Areas of Expertise: IT Infrastructure, Software Development, Card Payment & Loyalty, Cards Security (PCI), Retail Systems
Industry Sectors: Mineral Oil, Retail, Accounting and Tax Consulting, Trading
PM Methodologies and Focus Areas: PMI/PMP, CVP, Requirements Management, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Cost Management, Crisis Management, Reporting, Contract Negotiation, Process and Role Mapping, Coaching and Mentoring
Major Projects: Infrastructure Mergers and Deployments, Card Terminal Development and Deployments, RFI/RFP Card Terminals and Retail Systems, Cards Security Enhancements and Audits, Service Transition, Mineral Oil Bulk Plant Management / Logistics, Document Management
Languages: German (mother tongue), English (business fluent)
Programming Languages: Assembler, C, C++, C#, CLIST, Cobol, JavaScript, JCL, PHP, PowerShell, REXX, Transact-SQL,
Various scripting languages, VB.NET
Technologies and environments: .NET Framework, Apache, Azure, CICS, DB2, EEHLLAPI (3270), Entity Framework, IIS, IMS/DB, JIRA, JSON, MQ Series, MS Office Add-Ins, MS Project / Project Server, MS SQL Server, MVS, MVVM, MySQL, node.js, SQLite, TSO, Visual Studio, VM, VSAM, VSE, WCF, Windows, WPF, XAML, XML
Personal Characteristics and Soft Skills: Excellent communications, Enthusiasm, dedication and will to succeed, Disciplined and reliable, Quickly understands new fields of knowledge, Capability to condense complex technical dependencies to management level information, Good judgement, Accurate documentation

Project history

2000 - 2018 as accountable Project Manager for BP Germany / BP Europa SE (total budget volume > USD 85m)
Projects in the area of payment and loyalty card acceptance and retail systems for approximately 8.000 service stations in eleven European countries.
RFI / RFP for card terminals, retail systems and services:
  • Capturing and prioritization of business requirements and alignment of such between multiple countries and businesses
  • Management of the RFI / RFP process, Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of offers, weakness analysis, TCO calculation
  • Creation and presentation of recommendation for management decision
Development- and deployment projects:
  • Requirements capture and management for new / extended functional demand such as loyalty, currency conversion, contactless payment
  • Management of heterogeneous stakeholder groups: In country and international business management, IT&S management, certification bodies, banks, payment- und other service providers
  • RAID Management (risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies)
  • Supplier management (hard- and software-vendors, service partners)
  • Change management (communications and mobilization, training)
  • Management of deployments in multiple countries
  • Progress- und financial reporting, acceptance and handover
Compliance projects (PCI and other card processing standards):
  • Analysis of compliance requirements und determination of organizational and technical effects.
  • Definition of roles and processes to ensure sustained compliance in organization
  • Planning and completion of security audits in cooperation with respective certification bodies
Various infrastructure integration projects as part of the mergers of BP with Castrol and ARAL/VEBA:
  • Analysis of demand and budgeting of hard- and software deployments to up to 5.000 desktop and laptop users
  • Mediation between stakeholders in a difficult environment
  • Change management
  • Design and deployment of the service delivery organization
1982 - 2019 as Software Developer for various companies:
  • Web based product catalogs, web services
  • Document storage and retrieval with full text search capabilities
  • Full rewrite of bulk plant management application
  • Development environment / source code management for distributed mainframe system
  • Statistical evaluation and graphical presentation of environmental measurement data

 

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